1993 Marianne worked with the highly respected British Folk band 'Home Service'.
(I went to one gig, it was at the Half Moon in Putney, one of the Pub Folk Clubs
in which both Marianne and I had played, it all seemed so much smaller than twenty years before.) Marianne has helped out session singing for various independent record producers and artists.
There was a lot going on in her private life and she wanted to investigate other avenues, we have one life, all these things are not for these pages. There was discussion about a Hollywood Movie, may be Marianne will tell that story in the book. Sometimes there was talk of finishing with it all together.
It depends on who you are and what you have done with your life if you can relate to some of these things. The music business is a tough game, the distances to travel are enormous and frankly the rewards in a financial sense can often be disappointing. Now, now don't get out the violin….Dave Waite used to put it like this 'The lows can be so miserable but the highs are so miraculous they make the lows insignificant".
Have you ever met a really good workman, say a painter or a carpenter. You watch them and they have a grace in their movement, they do what they do not just for the wages but because they are proud to be able to do what they do and do it well. There was an expression 'Workman Like' it was a compliment. That is what Marianne is like 'Workman Like' . You know that she is cooking up some new music and she thinks about it and she tells you she has some time in the studio and you know she plans it all and knows exactly what she wants to achieve and she goes and does it. May be she doesn't cares to much for any other side of the business. All the nonsense that surrounds it and actual business side of it all.
She wrote and recorded a beautiful CD for children with songs and pomes along with a book Fun Fun Fun. The CD contains haunting melodies and unusual songs and fun pomes.
Marianne Co-ordinated the co-produced a single for Julie Felix with the help of Greame Taylor of the band 'Home Service' She continues to write and make beautiful music often with the help of Quin Rice who can provide studio facilities .
2001/2002
Marianne
did some concert dates with 'Aldbrickham Band. She wrote and recorded for various projects, these include two albums. She
started work on a biography of Jade and the 1970's Folk Club Scene. 'Hands of Friendship' World Centre Song for the Girl Guides
was adopted by the Girl Guides Association World Conference.
2003
Fly on Strangewings re-released to rave reviews
2004
Dave Waite and Marianne Segal New CD "Paper Flowers"
JADE Live
Performance
The original line-up of legendary UK '70's folk rock band Jade is reforming for
a one off gig with a full electric line-up at
Tapestry on the
12th of November 2004 Doors 8pm on stage 9.30pm
Venue : Tapestry, St Alloysius, Eversholt St, Euston (at the junction of
Eversholt St and Phoenix Rd) London
Review
from Shindig! (online magazine)
DAVE WAITE & MARIANNE SEGAL
Paper Flowers (Lightning Tree; CD)
Lightning Tree's
re-issue of Jade's 1970 folk-rock classic Fly On Strangewings was one of
last year's highlights, attracting rave reviews at every turn. Paper Flowers
is a prequel of sorts, comprising no less than 20 demos and live recordings and
three complete, fully orchestrated studio recordings cut by Jade members Dave
Waite and Marianne Segal between 1967 and 1969 and only recently unearthed on
the back of the renewed interest in their work.
Having come through the ranks of the UK university folk scene alongside such
luminaries as Sandy Denny, Bert Jansch and John Renbourne, the duo were
essentially a folk act who slowly began incorporating Marianne's original
compositions into their set alongside new pieces by Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell
while ousting the more traditional material. While the folk ambience is
inescapable, there's a particularly English thread here as well as a
transatlantic pop element that recalls The Mamas & The Papas and Peter, Paul
and Mary. Folk pop if you will.
The acoustic cuts are interesting, occasionally inspired twists on these various
formats but it's in the trio of polished studio recordings that immediately
pre-date the Jade album that you'll find the heart of this release. 'Paper
Flowers' is as bright and breezy as the West Coast soft-pop acts it so closely
emulates, Its Really Quite Alright is the greatest song Tony
Hazzard never wrote and 'I Can't Love You More' is a deliciously MOR pop duet
that should have been huge in the summer of 1968.
Previously unseen photos and reminiscences from Dave and Marianne themselves
make this an exemplary release from this fine label.
Andy Morten
New Album 2008
"The Gathering"
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